There goes my hair...

Queen JB
on 10/2/15 3:51 am

RNY on 07/20/15

Just shy of 11 weeks out and suddenly my hair is coming out in handfuls. I have really thick hair (when I get it cut I beg them to thin it, then when they think they are done...thin it again), so I have plenty to spare! But this is pretty shocking!

I think if I collected it all, I could make wigs for baby Kardashians ;)

Just wondering how long the loss typically lasts, before it slows down?

I have PCOS, so I'm not interested in Biotin--I only want hair on my head, not everywhere else, please!!

High Weight before LapBand: 200 (2008)
High Weight before RNY: 160 (2015)
Lowest post-op weight: 110 (2016)
Maintenance Weight: 120 (2017-2019)
Battling Regain Weight: 135 (current)

rocky513
on 10/2/15 4:34 am - WI

It usually starts at around three months out and it ends at about nine months out. Biotin does not prevent the hair loss. Keeping your protein levels up will insure that your hair grows back as strong and thick as before surgery. I lost about half my hair, but I have thick, curly, hair and the only person who noticed the loss was me!

Most folks get a new hair style to get through it.

HW 270 SW 236 GW 160 CW 145 (15 pounds below goal!)

VBG Aug. 7, 1986, Revised to RNY Nov. 18, 2010

selhard
on 10/2/15 5:27 am - MN

RNY on 11/26/12

I remember gasping, then smiling in amazement when holding fallen hair in my hand. I was thinking, "sure enough, it's almost three months to the day I read this would happen." You started a whole week early. I bought Nioxin shampoo/conditioner and a faux ponytail to wear. The hair situation got better a year out. Let's hope yours stops a whole week early, too.

Grim_Traveller
on 10/2/15 5:43 am

RNY on 08/21/12

Right on schedule! Relax. It will all grow back.

Some people freak out, and start trying all kinds of stuff. When their hair grows back, which it will regardless, they swear it was because of whatever product they were using. It's not. It's just time.

6'3" tall, male.

Highest weight was 475. RNY on 08/21/12. Current weight: 198.

M1 -24; M2 -21; M3 -19; M4 -21; M5 -13; M6 -21; M7 -10; M8 -16; M9 -10; M10 -8; M11 -6; M12 -5.

melissasue1982
on 10/2/15 6:34 am

RNY on 04/06/15

I have thin, limp hair....and its falling out.....I am worried I will be bald soon! YIKES! lol

HW: 328 Program start weight: 309 SW:275.8 CW: 154.6 (12/14/16)

AnneL
on 10/2/15 7:38 am

I have become so scale focused......how much does hair weigh? Anybody have any hat or wig suggestions?

Deanna798
on 10/2/15 8:13 am

RNY on 08/04/15

This just i made me snort with laughter. I hope my hair weighs pounds!

Age: 44 | Height: 5' 3" | Starting January 2015: 291 | RNY 8/4/15 with Dr. Arthur Carlin| Goal: 150

Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end you will be counted among the wise. ~Proverbs 19:20

Deanna798
on 10/2/15 8:14 am

RNY on 08/04/15

I have PCOS too. I hope all my chin hair falls out too!

Age: 44 | Height: 5' 3" | Starting January 2015: 291 | RNY 8/4/15 with Dr. Arthur Carlin| Goal: 150

Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end you will be counted among the wise. ~Proverbs 19:20

AMH82
on 10/2/15 8:58 am

On October 2, 2015 at 3:14 PM Pacific Time, Deanna798 wrote:

I have PCOS too. I hope all my chin hair falls out too!

Mine too!

I also fear that taking Biotin while may help with skin, nail and hair issues will also result in MORE unwanted hair in unwanted places.

Ugh.

killinmesmalls77
on 10/2/15 1:05 pm - MN

RNY on 05/07/15

That is so funny that you say that. I was just thinking this morning as I was holding gobs of hair in my hand. Crazy how lip and chin hair doesn't ever go away no matter what you do to it.